Court of Appeals (File photo) MANILA - The Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed the ruling of a Manila court convicting a ship captain for estafa after defrauding a local shipping company of PHP5 million to invest in a mining firm. In a resolution dated November 18 and uploaded recently, the CA upheld its earlier decision against Moreno Estrada as the prosecution "proved beyond reasonable doubt all the elements of estafa with abuse of confidence". In May, Estrada appealed the Jan. 15, 2021 decision of the CA which had affirmed the Manila Regional Trial Court's (Branch 173) 2018 sentencing of the skipper to up to seven years behind bars. The lower court also ordered Estrada to indemnify Philunion Shipping Inc. PHP4.5million and pay for the litigation costs. Philunion sued Estrada in 2015, through its representative, Chinese national Jianlin Sun, who said they were defrauded by the accused to invest PHP5 million in a nickel mining business in Zambales with a promised substant